St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-27
A TRIO Of TOuGHS.
St. Paul Detectives Make an Important
= Capture of Burglars. sss
A MOST DESPERATE GANG
Their Guilt Fixed Beyond Doubt--Jew-
- elry, Sealskins and Silk Stuffs
Found in Their Rooms.

{. Chief of Police Clark found a Christ
mas present when he came down. to
headquarters yesterday morning Dur
ing the night before Chief of Detectiv S
John O'ConnOr and Detectives Dan
O'COnnOr and Dan Ahern arrested and
brought in three of the mob of thieves
who are responsible for the moderate
has suffered within the past two
months. These, with the capture of the
burglar O'Banian, who was taken last
week, leave the detectives with clean
record to start the new year. James
Owens, Edward Shields and George
Adams are the names by which the
prisoners are known. Owens is
the leader of the gang, and
from what the detectives have
learned since Sunday, more desperate
or dangerous thief has not visited the
city in many years. He is fine, smart
looking young fellow, with smooth
shayen face and coal-black hair. He is
twenty-One years old, about five feet
seven inches high, and of me-
dunn build. He is dressed neatly
in dark sack suit, and has
| generally well-bred appearance. He
is known of him. Shields and Adams
are both ST. Paul men, Shields being an
eX-policeman, and son of Peggy"
Shields. the officer in charge of the
Black Maria. He is bad fellow and
has long been suspected.
THEIR CRIMES.
The crimes for which they must
answer are the burglary of A. G. Kidd's
and Kellog's and Severance's residences
on st. Anthony hill; the robbery of
Bergh's jewelry store on the corner of
Third and Cedar streets, and
the burglary of Pannell's furnish
ing store on Jackson street, near
Seventh. Owens will also have to
answer for the attempted assassination
of Mon Dee, the Chinaman, who was
shot through the door of his laundry,
on the corner of Sixth and Market
Kidd's residence they secured dia-
monds and a sealskin coat, worth
in all about $500; from Kell0g'S
and Seyerance's residences, which they
entered the following night, they took
watches and jewelry worth $3.50 and $40
in money: from Bergh's jewelry store,
where the show window was smashed
by Owens at o'clock in the evening,
while Third street was crowded with
pedestrians, he got four watches, valued
by Mr.. Bergh at $1,000; and from Pan
nelPS store, which was entered by the
transom over the front door, they got
sealskin caps, silk scarfs and other fur
nishing goods worth $500. By clever
detectiv work all of these stolen goods
have been ''tu ned up" and the evil
dence is strong enough to convict them
for any or all of the jobs.
Chief of Detectives John O'Connor
learned that one of the watches stolen
from Bergh's had been pawned by
Adams. Late Sunday evening Adams
was arrested and brought to the
central station. He was taken
to the chiefs private Office,
and for three hours he was subjected
to the inquisition by John O'Connor,
but he would not tell anything. He was
cOaxed. threatened and bluffed, but to
no avail. He stood pat and de-
clared he would q go. over him
self before he would give up his
| pals. The detective knew well
| enough who the men were, but he
wanted to know where they were and
where the goods were planted. About
| midnight Adams took new tack. He
| named a place where Owens could be
| found. Detectives Dan O'ConnOr and
| Dan Ahern went to the place only to
| find that he had lied. They came back,
| and John O'C0nnOr3 perseyered in his
| questioning. Adams lied again, and the
| officers were gone another hour on a
/ fools Grand. About o'clock Adams
| weakened and told that Owens could be
found at No. III West Sixth street. The
| detectives went there and found Owens
| in bed with woman who showed GER
| tificate of marriage given in Dakota ter
ritOry. After thorough search of the
| rooms they found two of the sealskin
caps and some silk handkerchiefs,
| taken from Pannell'S. Owens was
brought to the station and locked up
anu the woman was also brought
| i'll. She said she had married him about
| three weeks ago and knew nothing of
| his business. She did have a knowledge
of the shooting of the Chinaman
and was talked into telling all
| she knew. The detectives went
| out again. and at $50 yesterday morn
| ing brought in Shields, the third of the
trio, whom they found in room at No.
| 1751I East Seventh street. Upon search
ing Shields room the detectives found
| twenty-Seyen Sealskin caps and all the
remainder of the goods
STOLEN FROM PANNELL'S,
which were hidden in his trunk. A
witness who saw Owens running away
after shooting the Chinaman called and
| identified him yesterday. He had a
| talk with Chief Clark and John O'Con-
| nor last evening, and admitted having
committed the Robbery of Bergh's jew
elry store, and told where the watches
| could be found.